Motivational Quotes

Risk

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Risk

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

39.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor